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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
Volume 20, Issue 4, Pages 2661-2669Publisher
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s11356-012-1158-8
Keywords
Perfluorinated compounds; Multixenobiotic resistance mechanism; Bioaccumulation; Toxicity; Respiration; Mussel
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- Ministerio de Ciencia e Inovacion
- Ministerio de Medio Ambiente, Medio Rural y Marino [CTM2011-30471-C02-01, 041/SGTB/2007/1.1, 042/RN08/03.4]
- Spanish and German Integrated action project [DE2009-0089]
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Perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) have been used for many years in numerous industrial products and are known to accumulate in organisms. A recent survey showed that tissue levels of PFCs in aquatic organisms varied among compounds and species being undetected in freshwater zebra mussels Dreissena polymorpha. Here we studied the bioaccumulation kinetics and effects of two major PFCs, perfluorooctane sulfonic acid compound (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), in multixenobiotic transporter activity (MXR) and filtration and oxygen consumption rates in zebra mussel exposed to a range of concentrations of a PCF mixture (1-1,000 mu g/L) during 10 days. Results indicate a low potential of the studied PFCs to bioaccumulate in zebra mussel tissues. PFCs altered mussel MXR transporter activity being inhibited at day 1 but not at day 10. Bioaccumulation kinetics of PFCs were inversely related with MXR transporter activity above 9 ng/g wet weight and unrelated at tissue concentration lower than 2 ng/g wet weight suggesting that at high tissue concentrations, these type of compounds may be effluxed out by MXR transporters and as a result have a low potential to be bioaccumulated in zebra mussels. Oxygen consumption rates but not filtering rates were increased in all exposure levels and periods indicating that at environmental relevant concentrations of 1 mu g/L, the studied PFCs enhanced oxidative metabolism of mussels. Overall, the results obtained in this study confirm previous findings in the field indicating that an important fraction of PFC accumulated in mussel tissues is eliminated actively by MXR transporters or other processes that are metabolically costly.
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